By Jonathan Sherbino (@sherbino) Medical education, like many other academic disciplines, can become a victim of buzz words. Self-directed, asynchronous, operationalize, etc. (Don’t even think of using the word “passion” in front of me.) It seems to me […]
By Jonathan Sherbino (@sherbino) I’ve commented previously on the ICE blog about the challenges that a CE faces in being recognized for their academic productivity. In the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, there is a fairly […]
Today’s guest post is from Deepak Dath a hepatobiliary surgeon and CE at McMaster University. – Jonathan (@sherbino) By Deepak Dath (@drddath) A hallmark of competency based medical education (CBME) is frequent, direct observation of performance. […]
By Jonathan Sherbino (@sherbino) Technology and health professional education is a perennial hot topic. I suspect that the invention of papyrus was a big step forward for Hippocrates and his followers. 2400 years later (i.e. 2014) the […]
By Jonathan Sherbino (@sherbino) I have been thinking about communities of practice lately. In early January, I was at the Royal College office in Ottawa, Canada for a two day meeting on the evolution of CanMEDS. The […]